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Carole Levin
European History
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Introduction: Talking about Scholars and Poets Talk about Queens
Queens from the ancient period through the Renaissance have always held a special fascination. We are interested in the historical lives of queens, how they were represented in later chronicles and histories, a.....
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The Heart and Stomach of a Queen
With apologies to William Shakespeare, Monty Python, and James Aske.
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Queen Margaret in Shakespeare and Chronicles: She-Wolf or Heroic Spirit
In Shakespeare’s Henry VI part III, Richard, Duke of York, calls Queen Margaret—Henry VI’s wife known to history as Margaret of Anjou—“the she-wolf of France.” Margaret is furious with her husband for giving the...
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T-shirt Day, Utopia and Henry VIII’s Dating Service: Using Creative Assignments to Teach Early Modern History
It is the last day of the semester in my course on Tudor and early Stuart England and some of the students have produced creative final assessments which they are presenting to the class. Perhaps the most crea...
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Why Elizabeth Never Left England
Like her siblings Edward VI and Mary I, Elizabeth I never left England to visit other realms in the British Isles and the European continent during her reign. This was in marked contrast to her father, Henry VI.....
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Introduction
Why do dreams matter so much to us? Dreams themselves, and the way we interpret them, take us into the deepest part of our individual as well as cultural psyches. Dreams indicate to us the ways in which we are .....
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Afterword
This book begins with the court of James I and ends with the reign of his predecessor Elizabeth and the execution of James’s mother. In the ways of dreams, this book has come full circle. Studying dreams, and i.....
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Introduction
This volume participates in the ongoing, interdisciplinary study of the establishment—and testing—of gender roles in early modern England, a time and place in which religious and political change undermined th...
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Theorists and Practitioners: Dreaming about the Living and the Dead
There were wide-ranging beliefs about dreams in early modern England. For some, at least, belief in the efficacy of dreams was the early modern version of believing one could win the lottery. One dream story cu.....
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Sexuality, Power, and Dreams of a New Dynasty
Those in the Tudor period looked back to the previous century and reign of Henry VI and remembered times of a long minority and then a king, when he came of age, unable to rule effectively. The problems of Henr.....
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1605, the Year of Three Dreams
In November 1605, Guy Fawkes, under the alias John Johnson, was living in a small house adjacent to the House of Lords and was Thomas Percy’s supposed servant and caretaker. Percy had leased the house the year .....
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Religion and Witchcraft
As we saw in the previous chapter, dreams were powerful in the belief systems of early modern English people. One of the areas where dreams had the most powerful resonances had to do with religious belief and p.....
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Sacred Blood and Monarchy
Early modern English dream books often discussed dreams about monarchs, both kings and queens. Andrew Seyton, the “celebrated seer of Cumberland,” suggested that if in a dream one saw the queen, one would soon .....
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Introduction
Though Anne Bradstreet was not born until almost a decade after the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, the tremendous impact of having a queen on the throne of England for much of the latter part of the sixte...
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The Taming of the Queen: Foxe’s Katherine and Shakespeare’s Kate
In considering the transmission of religious and gender ideologies in sixteenth-century England, we must consider John Foxes Acts and Monuments, one of the most influential and widely read books of the English Re...
